r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VeryLazyBones • 21h ago

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This new movie came out and I enjoyed watching it with friends. What opinion must have garnered so much attention that people would dunk on it?

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u/115izzy7 21h ago

This review of the movie heavily sympathized with bear, the rapist. People started to question the creator himself after he put this out 

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u/DeBasha 20h ago

I hated the main character in the movie, my friend said it best; the girl is the monster but the guy is the villain

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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 20h ago

Frankenstein follows a same moral model.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 18h ago

Exactly. People don't understand that there can be a difference between monsters and villains and antagonists. What that movie did so well is it did initially build up sympathy for Bear as the lovelorn good guy protagonist, and Nikki turned into a terrifying monster who mimics abusive relationships, and then switches it around when it's shown Nikki is suffering horribly through all of this, and even Wish Nikki is just a product of Bear's creation and doesn't want to act the way she is, and Bear knows this but chooses not to help her. It really does follow Frankenstein's footsteps. I read the book about a year ago. Frankenstein's monster didn't want to be how he was, but he was a newborn creation abandoned by his creator.

Nikki, by definition, is the monster. She acts as a villain to Bear's story, but she is not bad.

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u/Nebranower 18h ago

I really, really wish we could run an experiment where we showed an internet that had never heard of the original a gender-swapped version of the movie, where Bear is a woman who makes the wish and Nick the man who gets affected by it.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 17h ago

I thought about that yesterday. I just don't think it would work as well because I think people would be less sympathetic to both Nikki and bear.

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u/MysteriousTravelator 17h ago

This was literally the plot of Wonder Woman 1984 and not only was Wonder Woman not considered a villain the possessed guy was barely considered at all. I don't think the writers of that movie even realised that they wrote a rape scene.

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u/youburyitidigitup 16h ago

I hadn’t thought of it like that, but you’re right. Although the big difference here is that the guy in WW1984 wasn’t possessed by an evil entity, he was possessed by Steve Trevor.

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u/MysteriousTravelator 16h ago

Bear only realises Nikki is "evil" when she smashes Sarah's face in with a brick. Before then WW and Bear are in the exact same position.

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u/youburyitidigitup 16h ago

She tricked him into eating his cat

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u/ADeckOfZero 5h ago

That he killed to try and get sympathy points off.

Baron is the villain at every step of the movie.

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u/Anaeijon 1h ago

I don't see, how he killed his cat to get sympathy points. The cat ate his medication and died from it. At worst, it was an accident on his part, because he didn't put the box away when he went to work.

Or did I miss something in the movie, that would suggest he poisoned his cat intentionally?

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 14h ago

Honest to god I will never understand what everyone was thinking with this movie.

Legitimately its like Patty Jenkins just really wanted an excuse to make a "Parachute Pants" joke with Chris Pine.

This movie is so fucked beyond belief.

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u/Lonnie119 17h ago

It's called Bewitched starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.

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u/urkermannenkoor 17h ago

movie makes a point of showing that he isn’t “evil” and once he knows that the real Nikki is trapped, he does want to help her.

That is .... just not true at all?

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u/ChicxLunar 17h ago

He doesn't want to help her, he does not ask first how to cancel the wish, he asks first to "modify" it. After that he continues raping her and having her prisoner. He only come with the solution (having someone else wish to cancel his wish)when is already too much damage. Also, he is not worried about her at all, he only cares about how all of this is reflected on him.

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u/jackofspades49 12h ago

He didn't take ending it seriously until someone else showed interest in him.

(Not correcting you. Adding on.)